With that said, there has still been a strong Arsenal contingent at London Colney with the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Benjamin White, Gabriel Martinelli, Gabriel Magalhaes, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Rob Holding .
After a few days of training, things were kicked up a notch on Saturday afternoon as an Arsenal XI were in action at the training ground facing off against Championship side Watford
The north London outfit have since revealed details of the friendly match and Marquinhos got on the scoresheet in a 1-1 draw. The Brazilian, who spent the second half of last season out on loan with Norwich City, reacted quickest to Amario Cozier-Duberry's shot being saved to coolly slot home the rebound to draw the Gunners level 10 minutes after the restart.
It has also been confirmed that Arteta named wonderkid Myles Lewis-Skelly in the starting line-up alongside Reiss Nelson - fresh off signing his new contract - alongside Mauro Bandeira and presumably Leandro Trossard in midfield with Arthur Okonkwo getting the nod in between the sticks.
As William Saliba, Tomiyasu and Oleksandr Zinchenko were not involved at all, it allowed the Arsenal manager then turned to more of the club's most promising youngsters in the second half with striker Mika Biereth and winger Cozier-Duberry among those to get a runout.
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